Intel ARC GPU support

[jameskitt616]

I run neko with my Intel iGPU for a while now, with no issues. I recently got my hands on a Intel ARC A380 GPU.
I gave it a try with neko, tho neko instantly fails when trying to spin it up. I use an up-to-date kernel (6.8) on the underlying host for the Intel ARC to be working.
The error message is probably saying that the neko container is missing a gstreamer plugin (no element "vaapih264enc" ) or somehow other related to gstreamer-vaapi.

I don't know if that is actually the issue. I will be happy to assist in any way, if there are questions or help needed/further information required.

[beyondzvincent]

can you teach me how to use with intel igpu? i have a intel 1260p but failed to run neko with gpu acceleration

[ehfd]

1. You need to use Ubuntu 24.04. (at least a 24.04 container) or similarly new container distro.
2. You need vah264lpenc (gst-bad, va / separate from the legacy vaapi plugin) - It should be to first check if vah264enc (older Intel GPUs, AMD GPUs) plugin exists then if it doesn't, switch to vah264lpenc from within the code internally.

Reference: https://github.com/selkies-project/selkies-gstreamer/blob/8476d8fc44dbc90103f7d615ca719858526b2bc7/src/selkies_gstreamer/gstwebrtc_app.py#L401

[jameskitt616]

I do use Ubuntu 24.04 already. The rest is on neko's side on the code base or in the docker container as i understand it.

[ehfd]

The host and the container should both be Ubuntu 24.04. The above message is for @m1k1o.

[m1k1o]

We are currently on debian bullseye / ubuntu 20.04 for nvidia. As 24.04 is available only since couple of days, I think we could upgrade. But even the upgrade to bookworm was not successful as we saw high CPU usage spikes. Let's see if that happens with the latest version.

[jameskitt616]

Is there anything i can do or test to help out bring this a little further?

[ehfd]

I have an Arc and the driver support is very bad.

intel/media-driver#1800

[jameskitt616]

I only used my Arc for transcoding in Emby, worked fine so far there. I dont know how support with gstreamer looks.
But thats why i ask if there is anything specific i can test.

[ehfd]

It's a vapostproc issue. Encoding seems to work fine.